Review: "The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class" – NPR
In this story from NPR today, Marily Geewax writes, "a just-released analysis of government data shows that as of 2015, middle-income households have become the minority." "And middle-income Americans not only have shrunk as a share of the population but have fallen further behind financially, with their median income down 4 percent compared with the year 2000." I'm not an economist but when I look at a typical middle class budget, a chunk of it goes towards medical expenses